If you want a happier, healthier, longer-lived pet bird, you want real help and real experiences from real people. Here, in one convenient package, you'll get 28 of my most popular previously published articles from Bird Talk and Birds USA, including 8 different surveys of more than 200 pet bird owners eager to share their top tips for a successful relationship with their parrots, conures, budgies, cockatiels, canaries, Pekin robins, and more. You can feed, clean, house, amuse, and even understand your bird better. Let me show you how.

Here are some of the key topics we'll cover:

The 10 Best Things You Can Do For Your Bird -- suggested by a survey of real bird owners

My popular birds & music series -- use music to thrill, calm, and amuse birds of any species

Better diets for birds who love food -- help you seed addict eat better, when and how to offer a low fat diet, treats birds should & shouldn't eat, the secrets of great sprouts and greens for vitamin K, and much more

Birds you may not considered -- Pekin robins and the perky mid-sized parrots

Bathe your bird -- keeping it clean without stress

Fun with birds -- vacation time, 30 ways to amuse a parrot, the free-flight time debate

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Editorial Reviews

From the Author

Throughout its publishing history, Bird Talk was a leader in gathering questionnaires from bird owners that allowed them to share their real experiences. When I realized that some of these surveys were in danger of being forever lost, I knew it was time to publish this book. But The 10 Best Things You Can Do For Your Bird is much more than a reprint book. I rewrote and revised every article word by word to provide you with the most up-to-date information for bird care in the 21st century.

About the Author

I'm a long-time bird owner who has written a number of books on small pet birds for T.F.H. Publications. My domestic-bred peachfront conures recently celebrated their 26th birthday-- an impressive age for a small conure species. My chatty yellow-crowned Amazon is now approaching 50. I love to share the skills you need to help you enjoy the same enduring relationships with your birds.

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I enjoyed this book. It was a different from other bird care books. While care was certainly a major factor in the author's suggestions, the point was not only about having a healthy bird, but about having a happy bird. I believe in music for animals as well as humans, and have found it helpful in soothing rescued pets. Some if her examples were quite humorous, and with birds, it seems there taste in music is also about as varied as humans!

Back in the dark ages of the early 1980s, when parrots were beginning to enjoy popularity in our homes, we didn't really know much about them. An explosion of knowledge and discovery followed that continues today. One of the contributions is Radford's series of articles, gathered in this one collection. I was a bit hesitant to read such "old" articles previously published in Bird Talk, but was happily surprised by how current the information still is. For example, her "30 Ways to Amuse a Parrot" is full of fun things any of today's parrot behavior consultants would approve. I most enjoyed the articles about birds singing, especially the ones about parrots and their favorite music (which is just as varied as the species). As parrot slaves we have since gathered vast amounts of knowledge about our beloved feathered friends, and I expect we will continue to as time goes on. It's nice to know that some of the first contributors were right on the money and that their words are as relevant today as they were in the beginning. (Disclaimer: Radford and I agreed to read and review one another's book, but anyone who knows me knows I won't write something I don't stand by and mean. Just check my other Amazon reviews.